LASHIMARG SINK

(Kangan - IN)
34.333300,74.950000
Grottocenter / carte

Description

Herbert Daniel Gebauer - 07/04/2016

There is a draughting »open« (penetrable) sinkhole (insurgence) among the less large dolines on the left-hand side of the wide plain beyond Lashimarg (note 1), a hamlet at about 3500 m (11,500 ft) asl and somewhere on the Sonamarg- Wangat trek. It is suspected to give access (not pushed to a conclusion) to a pothole cave (note 3). Lashimarg must lie a short distance above Wangat (note 2) but is also accessible in a »through the breast and down across the back straight into the head« kind of way along the Sonamarg - Wangat trek (note 4).

Herbert Daniel Gebauer - 07/04/2016

NOTE 1: Lashimarg is NOT shown near (±5 km) N34°20': E074°57' (guessed Everest 1830 coordinates) on AMS sheet NI43-06 (U502 series, 1959 edition) or in the India Road Atlas (Eicher Goodearth 2006: 2 B3 B4). NOTE 2: ANGELETTI RIGON et al. (1987): »Sempre salendo, a circa 3500 m di quota, il sentiero attraversa un ampio piano assorbente costellata da numerose doline. Una della piu ampe, sulla sx [sinistra], con tanto inghiottitoio attivo.« NOTE 3: Wangat N34°19'35”: E074°56'55” (nima.mil/geonames accessed 16.11.2003). NOTE 4: For details of the Sonamarg- Wangat trek, see the relevant note below –>Dubta Pani Sink.

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Caves nearby

Distance (km)NameLength (m)Depth (m)
7.2SOORAPRA CRATER
7.2WANGAT MINES, Kangan
7.9TOOMOO CRATER
11.0HARAMUKH SINKHOLES AND SWALLETS
13.8NARA NAG SPRING
18.8DANISHAWAR CAVE, Erin Valley
18.8DUBTA PANI
19.5BURZAHOM PITS
23.6KHIR BHAWANI SPRING